Such attacks have given rise to a great deal of angry debate
in both Houses of Congress.
The following is the amendment:
No Senator in debate shall directly or indirectly by any
form of words impute to any Senator or to other Senators
any conduct of motive unworthy or unbecoming a Senator.
No Senator in debate shall refer offensively to any State
of the Union.
I was also for several years a member of the Committee on
Woman Suffrage. That Committee used to hear the advocates
of Woman Suffrage who liked to have their arguments reported
and sent through the mails as public documents under the franking
privilege.
Although a very decided advocate of the extension of the
right of suffrage to women, I have not thought that it was
likely that that would be accomplished by an amendment to
the National Constitution, or indeed that it was wise to
attempt to do it in that way. The Constitution cannot be
amended without the consent of three-fourths of the States.
If a majority can be got in three-fourths of the States for
such an amendment, their people would be undoubtedly ready
to amend their State Constitutions by which, so far as each
State is concerned, the object would be accomplished.
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